Monday 4 April 2011

Episode 13: Cathexis


See the picture above?  You can imagine how good this episode is can’t you?  It does’t help it reminded me of Spock’s Brain at the start, Chakotay becomes brain dead after an alien attack, his consciousness floating about Voyager doing battle with an alien entity.  Hey, it did almost get good at one point where it’s hinted the crew will start to become paranoid.  All about the crew wondering who the alien is and isn’t, but that’s soon done away with, after all this is a Star Fleet, we can’t be having conflict damnit!

At the start of the episode Janeway is shown in her downtime relaxing in her “holonovel”.  Now I don’t mind this, after all Picard had his Dixon Hill, but couldn’t she have something I bit more exciting than some kind of Jane Eyre program?  Who am I kidding?  Of course she couldn’t.  Also couldn’t they have used Carolyn Seymour in something better than a holo villain who you see for approximately four minutes?!

As it was the episode didn’t really seem to be about anything, it seemed to meander around and be a hodge podge of different ideas which might’ve come off better as different stories.  And don’t even get me started on a dark matter nebula that you can actually see.

2 comments:

  1. Maybe in the future, their eyesight has developed to such an extent that they can't see Neelix and his stupid board.

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  2. What makes it better is Chakotay using the medicine board to make a map out of the nebula. How does that even help?

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